
Olavi Ahonen
Actor · 1923 – 2000 · Tikkakoski, Finland
Movies24
Movie6.3ComedyAdventureIn Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
Movie5.6CrimeDramaA film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.
Kaikki pelissä
1994 · 10 votes
Movie6.9DramaWarWhen Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...
Movie4.7ComedyTwo middle-aged friends make a wager: no drinking, smoking, overeating, gambling, cursing, armchair sports or women for a month.
Piilopirtti
1978 · 6 votes
Movie5.2DramaCrimeThe very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and go into hiding after the heist.
Petos
1988 · 8 votes
Movie6.6ComedyTV MovieA ragtag team of cleaners tackles absurdly dangerous jobs - explosions, devastating water damage, and “impossible” stains - while dreaming of escaping poverty and enjoying holidays in the sun.
Movie5.6ComedyJalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.
Kahdeksas veljes
1971 · 6 votes
Movie8.0DramaComedyThe municipal council of Pinsiö tries to get Taavetti, the 'baron of Pinsiö', to move into a retirement home. However, the baron refuses and flees to Tampere to stay with his nephew Heikki and his wife Liisa. Heikki and his family dream of building their own house, but obtaining a mortgage loan is difficult. Their financial worries deepen when Heikki, as a union representative, has to deal with a strike at his workplace and illegal work practices.
Pinsiön parooni
1962 · 2 votes
Movie8.0HorrorComedyRacy monster movie parody.
Movie5.5DramaFollows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol.
Viimeinen savotta
1977 · 11 votes
Movie9.0ComedyAspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying to capture and sell their art on videotape. Hepi charms a girl working in the Zoological Museum with his imitations of bird sounds. Alienated look at the frustrations of show business, as presented by a cast of popular Finnish TV comedians with their absurd dialogue and eccentric inside jokes.
Koomikko
1983 · 1 votes
Movie7.2DramaWarIt is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
Movie6.7DramaThe title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a novel by Nobel prize winning finnish author F.E. Sillanpää. Simply put, the story concerns the decline and fall of a once-proud family, thanks to the alcoholism of its paterfamilias. Toivo Makela delivers a powerfully effective performance as the inebriated protagonist, avoiding the usual "drunken" cliches. The overlong running time, coupled with the downbeat nature of the subject, limited the film's worldwide appeal.
Movie6.6DramaA former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
Movie5.5ComedyMasochists are in for a treat when Spede Productions' most vulgar folk farce hits the screen. Created by no fewer than three first-time directors, the film tells the story of the village of Pölhölä, "where people are even more foolish than in Hölmölä."
Pölhölä
1981 · 11 votes
Movie5.7DramaA small Finnish town bank manager gets caught in the midst of local politics, with dire effects on his family and himself.
Syksyllä kaikki on toisin
1978 · 6 votes
Movie7.8ComedyTwo upstart families compete while trying to overcome the generation cap with their children.
Virtaset ja Lahtiset
1959 · 4 votes
Movie5.9ComedyUuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins them when it turns out Tuura's mansion is on the construction site of a new road. Tuura however is set on preventing this.
Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle
1986 · 17 votes
Movie5.2Comedy'Tup-Akka-Lakko' is a sequel to 'Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit' in which doctor Jyrä invented a test-tube-adult who looked exactly like Mutikainen, a mathematician. When the test-tube-adult's body emerged, his voice moved into Mutikainen's body because of the doctor's error. Problems ensue.
Tup akka lakko
1980 · 13 votes
Movie4.8DramaCrimeTuomas Murasen rikos
1994 · 4 votes
Movie5.5ComedyThis prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.
Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla
1990 · 10 votes
Movie5.3DramaComedyThe film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.
Aika hyvä ihmiseksi
1977 · 7 votes
Movie5.6ComedyMathematician Mauno Mutikainen is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is being removed from his finger. He is then cloned into a test-tube adult named Richard Ilyevitch Jyrä by his creator Dr. Jyrä.
Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit
1979 · 18 votes
Movie5.1ComedyUuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage.
Uuno Turhapuron aviokriisi
1981 · 16 votes
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TV7.0DramaComedyPimennys
1993 · 1 votes
TVComedy
TV7.0ComedyViimeiset siemenperunat
1993 · 3 votes